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<v Speaker 1>This is w b Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.

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<v Speaker 2>Sunny in forty eight in Boston at eleven o'clock good

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<v Speaker 2>Friday after morning, almost afternoon. I'm Sherry Small. It's March

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<v Speaker 2>twenty eighth. Here's what's happening. Lawyers for a Tough's graduate

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<v Speaker 2>student file and updated petition challenging her detention by Ice.

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<v Speaker 2>Remesa os Turk was arrested outside her apartment in Somerville

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<v Speaker 2>earlier this week. The new amended petition alleges that the

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<v Speaker 2>government violated os Turk's constitutional rights. It also demands that

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<v Speaker 2>she be brought back to Massachusetts and released from custody.

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<v Speaker 2>Tammy Mutasa, with CBS News Boston, has born.

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<v Speaker 3>Last year, Ramisa was one of the writers of an

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<v Speaker 3>op ed calling for Tufts University to acknowledge genocide in Palestine.

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<v Speaker 3>Tutsa was also the site of a pro Palestinian encampment.

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<v Speaker 3>Secretary of State Marco Rubio addressing the case.

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<v Speaker 4>We gave you a visa to come and study and

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<v Speaker 4>get a degree, not to become a social activist that

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<v Speaker 4>tears up our university campuses. And if we've given you

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<v Speaker 4>a visa and then you decide to do that, we're

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<v Speaker 4>going to take it away.

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<v Speaker 3>Rubio says, at least three hundred foreign students visas have

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<v Speaker 3>been revoked, and once.

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<v Speaker 4>You've lost your visa, you're no longer legally in the

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<v Speaker 4>United States, and we have a right, like every country

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<v Speaker 4>in the world, has a right to remove you from

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<v Speaker 4>our country. So it's just that simple.

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<v Speaker 3>Ramesa was quickly taken out of Massachusetts to a Central

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<v Speaker 3>Louisiana ice detention center before a federal judge issued in

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<v Speaker 3>order limiting the government's ability to move.

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<v Speaker 2>Her, and, according to the Global Harvard Medical School scientists

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<v Speaker 2>from Russia, has been in ice custody for six weeks now.

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<v Speaker 2>Her visa canceled after undeclared frog embryo samples were found

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<v Speaker 2>in our luggage at Logan. Exanna Petrovo was returning from

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<v Speaker 2>a vacation in France in mid February. She was taken

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<v Speaker 2>into ice custody at Logan, then transferred to detention centers

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<v Speaker 2>in Vermont in Louisiana. The Globe says the embriaales are

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<v Speaker 2>crucial to her lab research on gene function, and a

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<v Speaker 2>hearing for her asylum request has now been scheduled for

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<v Speaker 2>May seventh. Her lawyers say that she fears political persecution

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<v Speaker 2>if she is deported to Russia because of her opposition

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<v Speaker 2>to Russia's war with Ukraine. And A massive seven point

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<v Speaker 2>seven magnitude earthquake has hit Thailand's capital of Bangkok.

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<v Speaker 5>The epicenter was in Maynma, where the it's of course

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<v Speaker 5>a civil war raging on, making it very hard to

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<v Speaker 5>get information on the damage and really complicating emergency responses too.

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<v Speaker 5>Our producer there saying that destruction is widespread and the

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<v Speaker 5>expected casualty numbers should be high, with reports of devastated buildings,

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<v Speaker 5>a hospital with patients inside reportedly torn to the ground.

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<v Speaker 2>And that's foreign correspondent Britt Kleine from ABC News. And

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<v Speaker 2>now let's check the acuather forecast. Is a beautiful day today,

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<v Speaker 2>you might want to enjoy it the weekend, and fortunately

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<v Speaker 2>isn't going to be as nice. We'll see high as

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<v Speaker 2>about fifty seven degrees, sunny or partly sonny skies, a

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<v Speaker 2>little bit of a breeze, turning cloudy tonight, some rain later,

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<v Speaker 2>we'll drop down to a low of forty and then

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<v Speaker 2>tomorrow we'll see a few showers. It's going to be

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<v Speaker 2>cloudy highs in Boston forty two, and that high could

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<v Speaker 2>slowly fall throughout the day. Farther south, parts of the

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<v Speaker 2>South Coast Cape and Island can reach the lower fifties

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<v Speaker 2>for highs. Sunday again drizzle, it'll be cloudy, even colder,

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<v Speaker 2>highs near forty. It's going to feel like we're back

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<v Speaker 2>to winter. But Monday we rebound quite a rebound with

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<v Speaker 2>highs into the low sixties. We could see some showers

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<v Speaker 2>hanging on and rather cloudy skies, but high could bump

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<v Speaker 2>to sixty four. It's sunny and forty eight in Boston

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<v Speaker 2>at eleven oh five on this Friday morning, a new

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<v Speaker 2>safety task force is launched in the city of Boston

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<v Speaker 2>to reduce crime, drug use, in homelessness. WBC's James Rojas

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<v Speaker 2>reports from Downtown.

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<v Speaker 1>Crossing Downtown Boston is the main focus of this new

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<v Speaker 1>task force. It's made up of a coalition of city

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<v Speaker 1>and state officials, law enforcement, and community organizations tackling issues

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<v Speaker 1>impacting public safety.

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<v Speaker 6>Congregate drug use, homelessness in retail. Theft.

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<v Speaker 1>Rishi Shukla, co founder of the Downtown Boston Neighborhood Association,

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<v Speaker 1>is on the task force.

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<v Speaker 6>We've had some issues here over the last twenty four months. Stabbings, shootings,

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<v Speaker 6>other things. It happens across the country, happens across all

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<v Speaker 6>the parts of the city, but we've had a couple

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<v Speaker 6>of inches here where residents do not feel safe going

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<v Speaker 6>to different parts of the neighborhood because of these high

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<v Speaker 6>profile incidents. When you have kids walking to school and

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<v Speaker 6>they're stabbing on the common, you can't have that.

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<v Speaker 1>This is an effort to streamline services, resources and strategies

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<v Speaker 1>to improve public safety and perception in downtown crossing. James

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<v Speaker 1>Rojas WBZ Boston's news radio.

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<v Speaker 2>Vice president JD Vance is visiting Greenland today. ABC's Terry

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<v Speaker 2>Morgan reports that residents there are on edge.

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<v Speaker 7>Karon Nuk, Greenland's capital. You can hear the concern about

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<v Speaker 7>what all this might mean. Do you think this is

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<v Speaker 7>pressure on you guys much?

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<v Speaker 8>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 7>Second, Lady Ushavinz had a first plan to attend a

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<v Speaker 7>dog sled race and promote cultural ties, but those plans

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<v Speaker 7>were dropped. Many people here do want to see a

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<v Speaker 7>deeper enhanced relationship with the US. There's a lot of

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<v Speaker 7>resentment against Denmark, but an American takeover of Greenland.

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<v Speaker 2>Most people reject that and the visit happening days after

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<v Speaker 2>President Trump promised to take over the island. And meanwhile,

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<v Speaker 2>President Trump has reportedly frustrated that the Signal group chat

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<v Speaker 2>story has remained in the headlines this as he continues

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<v Speaker 2>to downplay it. CBS is Olivia Ronaldi with me, no.

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<v Speaker 8>One has lost their job yet, But of course, as

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<v Speaker 8>this story continues, as there is now an investigation in

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<v Speaker 8>Congress into this, and also some reaction in the courts

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<v Speaker 8>that certainly this is something that's not just going to

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<v Speaker 8>go away.

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<v Speaker 2>And the group chat in question revealed information about strikes

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<v Speaker 2>on Yemen. Editor in chief of The Atlantic Jeff Goldberg,

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<v Speaker 2>was accidentally added to the chat. The Massachusettstate Inspector General

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<v Speaker 2>finds one point seven million dollars in uncollected cannabis licensing fees,

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<v Speaker 2>pointing the blame on the Cannabis Control Commission. The Loulsun reporting,

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<v Speaker 2>the Inspector General says the Cannabis Commission failed to collect

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<v Speaker 2>five hundred and fifty thousand dollars in pro rated licensing

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<v Speaker 2>fees up to one point two million in provisional license fees,

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<v Speaker 2>this happening over a two year span from August of

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<v Speaker 2>twenty twenty two to August of twenty twenty four. A

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<v Speaker 2>complaint in twenty twenty four spurred the investigation. You are

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<v Speaker 2>now in the loop for news updates throughout the day.

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